Successful Strategies to Jump Start Your Online Course

August 31, 2010 - 3:13pm | by rtbrown
Presenter(s)
William Phillips (University of Central Florida, US)
Amy Sugar (University of Central Florida, US)
Session Information
November 4, 2010 - 1:40pm
Track: 
Learning Effectiveness
Areas of Special Interest: 
Social Networking
Major Emphasis of Presentation: 
Practical Application
Institutional Level: 
Multiple Levels
Session Type: 
Group Presentation
Location: 
Curacao 2
Session Duration: 
80
Concurrent Session: 
5
Abstract

When faculty use strategies to quickly engage and interact with their online students, student success rates can soar. This session will provide proven strategies to quickly engage and involve students in an online course and showcase faculty examples that demonstrate how to improve interaction, learning and student success.

Extended Abstract

A study of the literature proves that by quickly gaining the trust, involvement and interaction of online students, higher course success rates emerge. If faculty don't quickly engage their online students, the students may lose interest and fail to succeed or learn online. This session will provide proven strategies, based on current literature and faculty examples, to quickly gain the trust, interaction and engagement of online students. Strategies include communication techniques, course orientation, instructor introduction and more. The strategy of "swift trust" will be defined and detailed. We will provide faculty examples with proven success at the University of Central Florida that demonstrate how to improve interaction, learning and student success. Examples and strategies provided will exemplify how to deliver one's online teaching persona, develop interaction with students and quickly build an effective online learning community. The goal of the presentation is to share successful strategies for online teaching faculty, course designers and faculty administrators to improve student success rates in online courses by quickly engaging and involving all students.

Final Presentation: 
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Lead Presenter

William O. (Bill) Phillips is an Instructional Designer for Course Development and Web Services at the University of Central Florida (UCF) where he has been a faculty member since 2000. He earned an Ed. D. from UCF specializing in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on the online teaching persona. Bill holds a BA in Communication from the University of South Florida (USF) and MA from UCF in Instructional Systems Design. Bill has extensive experience in online teaching and learning and has developed over four hundred online courses. He facilitates online faculty at UCF.